CL-2018-000297, CL-2018-000404, CL-2018-000590, - [2025] EWHC 2364 (Comm)

Mr Bains is a man of substantial academic ability, qualifying as a solicitor in September 2002 after a first class law degree and two years as a trainee solicitor at Freshfields. He stayed at Freshfields, as an associate solicitor in International Finance, until the end of 2004. From there he moved in house to the Structured Finance Department of ING Bank NV, which he left in about July 2007 to join Barclays Capital’s Structured Capital Markets team. In February 2009, Mr Bains moved from Barclays Capital to the London office of an Icelandic law firm, to work there as a senior associate solicitor. He moved from there to Solo in late 2010, where he was both Head of Legal and Head of Compliance until Gary Pitts was later appointed to be a separate Head of Compliance. When SCP was formed as an LLP, Mr Bains became a founding member of the partnership, and until he left Solo he was the de facto COO of SCP in London.